Since it's a pity for all the nice, friendly, psycho bots personalities Clemens made to go to waste, and because some veterans (which weren't supposed to like bots more than people!) asked for instructions, i'll make a boring post about the different aspects that can be changed manually:

So first of all you gotta go to Tutorial and click the Bot Duels button. It will start a local server with the xr_duel_tutor2 map, WHICH CAN'T BE HOSTED ON A SERVER! So Hoff, if you wanna have a bots server, wait until we finish xr_duel_tutorm map, which will work with multiple players.

Once you've connected, you can pull the console with tilde ("~"), or type the commands in your chat box preceded by "/". Like, if you want bots to stop pointing out how bad you are at duels, type "/sv_botTalk 0" in chat box or "sv_botTalk 0" in console. And don't forget to press Enter!

To change bot styles (personalities or Personas), use the following command:

/botskill <botNumber> <personaNumber>

Currently, Human bots range from -1 to 17; Beasts from -1 to 23. And then there's a 99.Persona numbers are not sorted nor indicative of skill level.<botNumber> is the bot's/arena's number.<personaNumber> is the Persona you want the bot to be.

Example:/botskill 4 17

The bot inside arena 4 will henceforth change to Persona 17.

/botrem <botNumber>

Type this command into chat to respawn/reset a bot.The cvars sv_botRandomPersona, sv_botHumanType, sv_botBeastType will decide what Persona the bot respawns with.<botNumber> is the bot's/arena's number.

Personalities:

Both races:

Bot-1 (Random)Changes style after each death

Bot99 (Daebot)Adapts to your skill. Gets better if you're ahead in kills, or weaker if it is leading.

I knew how to bounce, but I don't think it's so good to practise it because you lose control of your unit for a longer period than if you don't. But OK, maybe if someone who didn't know about it then learns it, it's good.

Also, it's not so fun to practise with the bots if you have to resort to a gimmicky strategy in order to beat it, then you don't really learn anything because you realize "Oh I can just bounce and beat him every time". But to each their own, I'll just play vs. a bot which is more fun for me.

But I'm mostly curious about my question about how they block.

Also, I noticed the human bots will run straight at you while they are using their medkits. If it's possible, they should move away and try to strafe-dodge a bit.

Different bots block with different efficiency.Some are designed to be good at blocking, thus countering freeswings or bouncing may be the only way. Just like in real against top blockers.Other bots are good at blocking frontals and are designed to be worse against backstabs (no bounce required).

Also, it's not so fun to practise with the bots if you have to resort to a gimmicky strategy in order to beat it, then you don't really learn anything because you realize "Oh I can just bounce and beat him every time".

Welcome to the world of duels where using what works against your opponent best is the way to win. Why do you think Bobbe is always a finalist? He abuses gimmicky moves.

Also, I noticed the human bots will run straight at you while they are using their medkits. If it's possible, they should move away and try to strafe-dodge a bit.

Hmm, I'll look into that.

I made so many bots with various differences that you can simply pick the bot you want to practice or have fun against.Just don't duel a bot you don't like. They're not real players; you can pick someone else.

Also, I accept suggestions for new bot algorithms.

PS: The two Kongor heads taunt is from Chao. (I added suggested taunts that fit with the theme.)

One bot that might be missing on the human side is one that plays quite passively, who moves away a lot and tries to dodge and occasionally tries to get a sneaky freeswing in. Combined with good frontal blocks, it'd be a nice bot to practise against. It can be very tricky to hit such a person with a backstab.

What I mean is, generally he will strafe away and dodge when the beast attempt their first swing/leap closer and possibly counter with a freeswing unless he blocks. This will make a bot where you have to practise managing your stamina in order to be able to close the distance.

Also it should have a higher chance to freeswing if the beast uses his 3rd hit or if the beast misses his 2nd hit. Those are good times to freeswing because the beast can't counter-attack fast enough. Also if he notices that the beast is low on stamina, he should run forward and try to either attack or block the beast.

Done; H18 has been born. (Will be on the next AU.)Any special during-combat taunt you'd like him to have?The more the merrier, but he can also just use the default ones available.NOTE: These Arenas are not intended for strafing Bots.

What I mean is, generally he will strafe away and dodge when the beast attempt their first swing/leap closer and possibly counter with a freeswing unless he blocks. This will make a bot where you have to practise managing your stamina in order to be able to close the distance.Also it should have a higher chance to freeswing if the beast uses his 3rd hit or if the beast misses his 2nd hit.

Not going to happen; the bots are too limited for something so clever. :p

maybe this is the wrong thread , but I think lvl one bots should give tips instead of taunting. "don't forget to use your meds!", "press f on the ground when you need a break, then f on the ground again when your ready to fight" something like that, "shift to sprint", "look for teleports to start area when your ready to move on." Tirza's shoutbox link convinced me of this. It shows a new player dueling the bot in area one.

maybe this is the wrong thread , but I think lvl one bots should give tips instead of taunting. "don't forget to use your meds!", "press f on the ground when you need a break, then f on the ground again when your ready to fight" something like that, "shift to sprint", "look for teleports to start area when your ready to move on." Tirza's shoutbox link convinced me of this. It shows a new player dueling the bot in area one.

Well, Arena1 bots are too weak and dumb to know useful tips like those. :pAnd technically the other two tutorials tell you about keys (like sprinting, blocking, leaping and using medkits).

But Daemon and I already plan adding some more intro text for useful tips like "press F on ground for break".